Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance
- Also Known As: Site of the World's Columbian Exposition
- Address: S Stony Is Ave
- Vicinity: Jackson and Midway Plaisance parks
- Neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago in Chicago
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1893/04/21 | Charles W Goldsmith | Work | Goldsmith presents Expo officials his plan and four postcards of the Agricultural Building, Fisheries Building, Woman's Building and Naval Exhibit. The committee awards Goldsmith the license for 100 slot-machines on the fairgrounds to sell his cards. | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | ||
1893/05/01 | Burnham and Root | Architect | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Festival Hall | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | ||
1893/05/01 | Grover Cleveland | Dignitary | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Festival Hall | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | ||
1893/05/01 | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | Poet | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Festival Hall | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | ||
1893/06/00 | Buffalo Bill's Wild West | Show | Buffalo Bill's Wild West show plays next to the World's Columbian Exposition fairgrounds | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | ||
1893/06/00 | William F Cody | Entertainer | Buffalo Bill's Wild West show plays next to the World's Columbian Exposition fairgrounds | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | ||
1893/06/00 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Work | Edgar Burroughs promotes his father's American Battery Company by driving an electric car around the grounds of the World's Fair during the Summer of 1893. | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | ||
1893/10/09 | World's Columbian Exposition's Chicago Day sets a world record of 751,026 people attending an outdoor event. | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | ||||
1893/12/00 | Charles W Goldsmith | Work | Charles Goldsmith sells a total of 1,858,000 picture post cards, 2 for 5 cents via vending machines, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The multi colored cards include the Administration, Electrical, the Fine Arts and the Machinery buildings. | Arrival of the Picture Postcard | ||
1894/00/00 | American Lithographic Company | Manufacturer | The American Lithographic Company sells an estimated 2,000,000 picture postcards featuring the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago from a deal made by Charles Goldsmith. | Arrival of the Picture Postcard | ||
1929/00/00 | American Lithographic Company | End | The American Lithographic Company is liquidated. | |||
1934/04/10 | To reduce duplication of services, streamline operations and collect funding from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, voters approve the Park Consolidation Act of 1934, which merges Chicago's 22 individual park districts into one Chicago Park District. |
Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
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Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
Jackson Urban Park, Chicago | ||
Midway Plaisance Park, Chicago |
Particulars for Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Area of Significance | Art |
Area of Significance | Community Planning and Development |
Other Description | French Beaux-Arts |
Sight Category | Historic District |
Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
Level of Significance | National |
US Government Program | New Deal |
Historic Use | Park |
Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America | Book | Erik Larson |
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